Quiet and quaint, the countryside comes with its own pace of living–and depending on where you are, its own regional flair. Turning away from traffic-choked streets and onto meandering country paths, urban residents are increasingly choosing to take up residence in greener pastures. Country and Cozy opens doors and pulls back the floral curtains to reveal a more characterful interior design...

Graphic Design School is organized into two main sections, ‘principles’ and ‘practice’. The first section deals with the fundamentals of design, such as composition, hierarchy, layout, typography, grid structure, colour and so on. The second section puts these basics into practice, and gives information about studio techniques and production issues relevant to a number of different graphic...

The comprehensive catalogue accompanying the exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler In its most prestigious exhibition to date, the Fondation Beyeler has devoted itself to the early paintings and sculptures of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) that date from his so-called Blue and Pink periods to early Cubism. The paintings from this stage of his career, all produced between 1901 and 1907, are...

„Polska nie ma gór wysokich i majestatycznych jak Alpy, ale Tatry — choć znacznie niższe — nie ustępują im groźnym urokiem skalnych turni. Polska nie ma ciepłego morza, jak kraje śródziemnomorskie, ale tak pięknych, piaszczystych plaż z trudem szukać. Puszcz na pewno na Syberii więcej, ale Puszcza Białowieska jest ze wszystkich najdziksza — bo czy gdzieś jeszcze można się spotkać oko w oko z...

Polska to fascynująca mozaika tradycji i nowoczesności, wielowiekowych zabytków i nowatorskich rozwiązań architektonicznych. Elegancki album Polska. 1000 lat w sercu Europy zabierze w podróż po tym różnorodnym kraju. Niemal 400 kolorowych fotografii ukazuje kalejdoskop pejzaży: od wydm na wybrzeżu Morza Bałtyckiego, przez równiny centralnej Polski, aż po szczyty Sudetów i Karpat....

Breslau ist eine Stadt, die gerade heute – im Zuge der europäischen Osterweiterung – wieder in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses rückt. Dieser Führer zu den heute noch bestehenden Bauwerken des Neuen Bauens der Stadt und ihrer Umgebung sowie ihrer Vorläuferbauten bietet die Möglichkeit, Altes vor Ort neu und auf den Wegen des Alten auch Neues zu entdecken. Wichtige, weit über die Grenzen des...

Album Panorama Polski prezentuje bogactwo natury i najpiękniejsze zakątki naszego kraju – od nadmorskich wydm i klifów przez mazowieckie równiny po wysokogórski świat Tatr. On and off the beaten track and ranging from the dunes and cliffs of the Baltic coast, via the Masovian plains, to the alpine glory of the Tatra Mountains, this album presents the abundant wonders of nature and...

'The Buddha was the source. Venerable Svasti and the young buffalo boys were rivers that flowed from the source. Wherever the rivers flowed, the Buddha would be there. He draws upon Pali, Sanskrit and Chinese sources to trace the Buddha's life slowly and gently through the course of eighty years. Seen partly through the eyes of the Buddha himself and partly through those of Svasti, the...

What is worse than Nero? What is better than Nero’s Baths?’ – so wrote the poet Martial in the first century AD, demonstrating the power that buildings have on public consciousness. In ancient Rome, who built a monument and why mattered as much as its physical structure. Over centuries and under many different emperors, a small village in Italy was transformed into the crowning glory of an...

\'There comes a moment in one\'s life or career when in order to evolve, you need to draw a line and acknowledge where you come from. This book is exactly this for me. In this book, you find the soul of Versace. I could not be any more proud to share it with the world\' Donatella Versace Founded by Gianni Versace in 1978, the family-run fashion house soon grew into a symbol of high...

Embark upon a lavish visual journey through ancient Greece―its origins, its rise and fall, and its legacy that still permeates the Western world today. Spanning more than 3,000 years, Ancient Greece explores the tumultuous history of this glorious empire in vivid detail―from its Minoan and Mycenaean origins to the apogee of the warring city-states of Athens and Sparta, and...

As World War I ended, the victors were developing a powerful new generation of 'hyper-dreadnoughts' and battlecruisers. Fully illustrated, this studies the big-gun warships that never were. 1918 was a moment of great naval change. Britain still had the largest fleet in the world, but its ships were ageing, and many of them were markedly inferior to the latest American and...

Artificial architecture has developed considerably in recent years, giving studios, professionals, students, and passionate enthusiasts the tools to create striking interior and exterior scenes. The limitless ability of the human imagination, coupled with powerful AI tools, has created a possibility to conceive and visualise perfectly realised worlds of dreamy beach houses, utopian...

During the First World War, rumours of heavily-armed German raiders led to the building of the first modern heavy cruisers by the Royal Navy. Named for famous Elizabethan seamen, they were very different from the lumbering armoured cruisers of the previous generation, and were enlarged developments of the highly successful light cruisers that had been built since the mid-1910s. As such, they...

Over the past decade, China’s new generation of young female architects have proven themselves to be talented, confident, innovative and successful on the world stage. Engaging with traditions and international trends, as well as posing entirely new architectural ideas, their projects reveal China to be a place brimming with energy and creative possibility. This survey of twenty of China’s...

Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) was a clerk in the Paris customs service who dreamed of becoming a famous artist. At the age 49, he decided to give it a try. At first, Rousseau’s bright, bold paintings of jungles and exotic flora and fauna were dismissed as childish and simplistic, but his unique and tenacious style soon won acclaim. After 1886, he exhibited regularly at Paris’s prestigious Salon...

Album, który trzymają Państwo w rękach, tworzą zdjęcia czterech różnych fotografików, których połączył zachwyt nad pięknem krajobrazu i bogactwem zabytków Dolnego Śląska. Dwaj są bliżej związani z tym regionem - Adam Hawałej mieszka i pracuje we Wrocławiu, a Andrzej Raj to Dyrektor Karkonowskiego Parku Narodowego, wybitny znawca gór, które doskonale fotografuje. Natomiast dwaj pozostali...

Album, który trzymają Państwo w rękach, tworzą zdjęcia czterech różnych fotografików, których połączył zachwyt nad pięknem krajobrazu i bogactwem zabytków Dolnego Śląska. Dwaj są bliżej związani z tym regionem - Adam Hawałej mieszka i pracuje we Wrocławiu, a Andrzej Raj to Dyrektor Karkonowskiego Parku Narodowego, wybitny znawca gór, które doskonale fotografuje. Natomiast dwaj pozostali...

Wake up to artistic inspiration every day with this popular, chunky hardback made available again in a refreshed edition containing a perpetual calendar featuring a dazzling variety of masterpieces from every era. As functional as it is beautiful, this substantial book presents some of the world’s greatest art in an elegant package that will look good at home or in the office. Every day...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY TIMOTHY GARTON-ASH A magisterial and acclaimed history of post-war Europe, from Germany to Poland, from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, selected as one of New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year Europe in 1945 was drained. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were...